SPOUTS of Water is composed of a group of dedicated students, engineers and volunteers, all working towards creating a ceramic water filter production center in Uganda that will allow for:
Increased access to sanitary water; decreased dependence on foreign aid; a sense of ownership when it comes to personal water hygiene.
We hope to help these children filter the water in those yellow jerrycans through ceramic filters that are:
[Effective] Ceramic filters have been historically proven to be effective.
[Portable] These household filters can provide portable water to individual homes rather than entire communities. This decreases the likelihood of potential conflicts and helps instill a greater sense of ownership, an important
aspect of global health technology that is often overlooked.
[Culturally accepted] The terracotta taste that results from water being filtered has also been found to be preferred where water has been commonly stored in ceramic jugs in the past.
[Simple] We believe that the low maintenance requirements of our filters will help to overcome culturally-instilled habits in the local population that often form barriers to adoption of new technologies.
[Cheap] Compared to existing technologies, SPOUTS offers a cheaper alternative.